wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 6 - Less Wrong Discussion
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The rules are simple. So are the rules for Go.
I had to look up whether that was, in fact, a new kind of optimisation algorithm. It certainly sounds like it should be. ;)
I assumed that it was well-known since I learnt about it in first-year computing (nearly 7 years ago now..). In retrospect, that was probably a silly assumption.
I think the joke is that you wrote "stimulated annealing" rather than "simulated annealing".
Oh! I always that was a valid alternate spelling of the same word. My bad.
Almost unrelated words. From thefreedictionary.com: simulate stimulate.